Genealogy Hofman-Gorter » Johannes Bernardus Groen (1903-)

Birthday September 29, 1903

• The temperature on September 29, 1903 was between 11.8 °C and 24.9 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (49%). Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
• In the year 1903: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 5.3 million citizens.
  • February 14 » The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor).
  • June 11 » A group of Serbian officers stormed the royal palace and assassinated King Alexander Obrenović and his wife, Queen Draga.
  • July 4 » The Philippine–American War is officially concluded.
  • July 19 » Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France.
  • August 18 » German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.
  • August 29 » The Slava, the last of the five Borodino-class battleships, is launched.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1899 » László Bíró, Hungarian-Argentinian journalist and inventor, invented the ballpoint pen († 1985)
• 1901 » Enrico Fermi, Italian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1954)
• 1901 » Lanza del Vasto, Italian poet, philosopher, and activist († 1981)
• 1903 » Diana Vreeland, American journalist († 1989)
• 1903 » Miguel Alemán Valdés, Mexican lawyer and civilian politician, 46th President of Mexico (1946-1952) († 1983)
• 1904 » Greer Garson, English-American actress († 1996)